Great to see the Irish turning their backs on France and getting behind Croatia
There was 100k aul lads sitting in cars at the beach listening to Radio 1
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That’s not the point. Sports that are seriously “national” in nature should see their preeminent event of domestic participants be the clear cut number 1 ranked tv show in that country.
It doesn’t matter if there are two small AFL teams playing, that will be the No. 1 show in Victoria and other parts of Australia.
Same goes for the Super Bowl.
The fact is that the GGA is woefully over egged as the “most popular” events in the country. It has every advantage, decades of national broadcaster tv as the No. 1. It has the advantage of a century of State bias and funding throughout the island.
If we went back 30 years and had the ratings, the GGA would be the undisputed no. 1. Truth is that it has been in decline since Irish people (outside the East Coast) got access to more than just a couple of tv stations and a few newspapers.
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Crokes train on Blackrock rugby club pitches. It’s GAA country now.
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ITV is available on the Sky platform.
There is a long held tradition on the East Coast of watching the BBC and ITV.
The GGA has decades of being by itself on the national broadcaster. Only in the last decade has there been proper annual competition, and that comes from Sky Sports which is not comparable. Interestingly Sky just dropped the GGA and they can’t get anyone else to show it.
Crokes and Cuala populate areas bigger than some inter counties. Their performance is to be expected given population.
It always had a presence but they are the clear 3rd and 4th choices in south Dublin.
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It’s more trouble than it’s worth watching ITV on Sky, particularly when you can watch it on another channel
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Is it? How many people would you think go to the trouble of tuning it in on the other channels? A few hundred? It isn’t on Virgin either and you can’t get it on free view? I think you are in lalaland here. People would definitely watch it on the bbc, which is on sky and Virgin if it was on the bbc.
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And would they get crowds bigger than those counties for big matches?
Sure baseball and basketball are also National but struggling. That’s nothing to do with it. Also, America is nothing like most countries.
Yes, very simple.
Many exclusively will watch their sports via the BBC and ITV, particularly on the East Coast where it was available before RTÉ.
It’s a point of preference and what people grew up on.
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They’d get an okay crowd for the All Ireland Club finals but I don’t think it’s particularly larger than other club finals (open to correction). Even if it’s another 10k in Croke Park compared to two rooral teams it isn’t particularly impressive given the population.
You’d barely know in the area.
I didn’t say the GGA wasn’t national, just that the interest in it is completely overegged. Given the advantages it has and had historically, the interest is pretty poor.
Isn’t it?
But it has two of the top 4 programs? In spite of much more competition?
I’d definitely say there is a tradition of watching the rugby on the BBC but there is no tradition of watching rugby on ITV and definitely no reason to go to the trouble of looking up the codes to tune it in on a sky box. It’s not like they have the iconic pundits and commentators that the bbc had.
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Yep because historically the GGA has had incredible funding and attention given to it.
If football and rugby weren’t discriminated against for a century along with having international competition, they’d be getting 2m easy.
Thr footix love keanos bants, loads would switch
No it’s not on the main platform. Rights issue with vm. You have to tune it in on the “other channels”.
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Is Keano doing the rugby now?
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